Yoshis88
October 26th, 2008, 07:53 AM
I've got an old Compaq Presario SR1817CL desktop with 512 MB (soon to be 4GB) RAM and an Athlon 64 processor. I am able to boot fully into Knoppix.
I burnt an AMD64 Desktop (live) CD, pop it in, let it select "Try ubuntu". Much to my surprise, it comes to a login screen. I don't know the password for 'ubuntu', but more importantly, I know that shouldn't happen.
I try to just go directly to the install on the CD. I get through the wizard, but in the middle of copying, it fails complaining about a faulty CD or CD drive. I don't know why this happens, but most alarming to me, it has happened many times before to me (on different computers with reburnt-CDs!). So, I do my usual thing of preparing a USB install using Unetbootin.
That installation goes cleanly and quickly, with Grub written to the MBR. I reboot the system, only to find that once I am prompted with the (now appropriate) login screen. I type in my credentials, flashes a bit making you think it's working, then bounces back to the login screen. I don't even know where to start. I'm starting to think my hands kill computers. Any insight is very appreciated!
I burnt an AMD64 Desktop (live) CD, pop it in, let it select "Try ubuntu". Much to my surprise, it comes to a login screen. I don't know the password for 'ubuntu', but more importantly, I know that shouldn't happen.
I try to just go directly to the install on the CD. I get through the wizard, but in the middle of copying, it fails complaining about a faulty CD or CD drive. I don't know why this happens, but most alarming to me, it has happened many times before to me (on different computers with reburnt-CDs!). So, I do my usual thing of preparing a USB install using Unetbootin.
That installation goes cleanly and quickly, with Grub written to the MBR. I reboot the system, only to find that once I am prompted with the (now appropriate) login screen. I type in my credentials, flashes a bit making you think it's working, then bounces back to the login screen. I don't even know where to start. I'm starting to think my hands kill computers. Any insight is very appreciated!